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Shine like a star at W Hollywood Hotel, where you take center stage. Indulge in fabulous Los Angeles dining at Delphine, then take the lift upstairs and splash around in our rooftop pool, WET. Soak up the celebrity scene at Drai’s Hollywood and then wind down in the comfort of our wow-worthy rooms featuring the Wonderful Room or Cool Corner Suite. This chic boutique is under the shadow of the icon Hollywood sign. Sip, mix and mingle at W Hollywood - the newest destination sensation. The place brings glamour and excitement back to the neighborhood that invented celebrity.
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Newport is the quintessential playground of American aristocracy with its summer cottages the size of palaces and its century-old status as a yachting capital. Still, this harbor town is more than model ships and mansions. The waterfront has spectacular views of wide, tentacled Narragansett Bay and is still Newport’s soul, and the estates along Bellevue Avenue haven’t lost their Gilded Age glamour. But in a town that seems, on the surface, so untouched by time, there’s an undercurrent of youthful rebelliousness. Ambitious upstart restaurants, a boisterous night life and a beachy surf culture belie Newport’s staid reputation.
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ON a wonderful Saturday evening last summer in the Dhoby Ghaut neighborhood of Singapore, a few hundred people — residents and in-the-know tourists — stood or sat in rows of plastic chairs taking swigs of Tiger Beer retrieved from an ice-filled inflatable kid’s pool. The crowd had assembled to see 10 local artists — photographers, a painter, a fashion designer, a filmmaker — present their work, with a white wall standing in for a projector screen. The biannual gathering, named Rojak for the inventive Singaporean-Malaysian salad, is one aspect of a recent effort to raise Singapore’s cultural profile.
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Apulia is the heel of the boot, where you will bike by groves of ancient, gnarled olive trees, stare out at dramatic sea views from the walled medieval center of Polignano a Mare, peek into old cone-topped stone houses and dine on fresh seafood and ear-shaped pasta, all at prices unimaginable in Tuscany. This region is a place that Italians go on vacation. For such an extraordinary beauty, travallers will bump into relatively low prices, the olive oil is famed and the wine is delicious and inexpensive. But it seemed ignored. And it was also on the way from Naples to Dubrovnik, Croatia, to which it’s connected by ferry.
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Today the French champagne company Krug has found one of the best ways to fly in style with the “Krug Is In The Air” champagne balloon tour program. It currently stands as the world’s most expensive hot air balloon ride, with a cost of roughly $77,790 for one flight. Owned by parent company, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennesy, the Krug hot air balloon premium quality design includes a wicker basket, canopy, burners by Camerons of Bristol, and white leather lining by French upholsters Bruno Domeau & Philippe Peres. With past expeditions through the U.S. (Los Angeles, Arizona and Miami), England, Italy, Japan and Hong Kong, the balloon will fly virtually to any location in the world.
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Kungliga Djurgarden (Royal Djurgarden) is an island consisting mainly of parkland and forest, with enough to see to keep visitors busy for several days. A wonderful walk along Djurgardskanalen during the summer will get you to Skansen, for instance, an open-air museum presenting historical Sweden, and Vasamuseet(the Vasa Museum), featuring the warship Vasa, which sank in Stockholm on her maiden voyage in 1628. Younger visitors will love Junibacken with its storybook worlds of iconic Swedish children’s author, Astrid Lindgren. Thielska Galleriet (the Thielska Gallery) and Prince Eugen’s Prince Eugen’s Waldermarsudde are two outstanding art museums, housed in former private palaces and famous for their collections of Scandinavian paintings and sculptures from the period around 1900.
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Simply Bermudian in style and character, with an uncompromising emphasis on privacy and luxury, Tucker’s Point Club rivals the finest resort communities in the world. Set on 200 acres of rolling hillsides in Tucker’s Town that overlook a glorious turquoise sea, the Club offers a unique brand of comfort and sophistication for those who appreciate the special charm and lifestyle of Bermuda. The Beach Club features Bermuda’s largest private beach and boasts two freshwater swimming pools. The Horizon Pool is reserved for guests ages 13 and older, while the Fountain Pool is perfect for families with young children.
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A two-hour flight west of Santiago, this rugged isle earned its fame from the 18th-century sailor Alexander Selkirk, whose wild spell as a castaway there inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe. The aura of adventure still endures. Travelers arrive on a seven-seater plane, then take a 30-minute speedboat ride to the town of San Juan Bautista. At the new Crusoe Island Lodge, all 15 bungalows are made with recycled materials and wood from the nearby forest. Get a good rest and the attention you deserve by choosing one of the 15 lodges and suites with terrace overlooking the Bay Pangal for accommodation.
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You’ll get a dose of cognitive dissonance arriving at Jicaro Island. There are palm trees and thatched roofs, even a shadowy volcano in the distance, but the air has none of the tropical tang you’d expect, and there are no waves or powdery shores. That’s because Jicaro is located on Lake Nicaragua, a freshwater lake 10 minutes by boat from the colonial town of Granada.The island’s single acre is occupied by Jicaro Island Ecolodge, a hotel as sensitive to the environment as it is easy on the eyes.
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Guests often remark that there is something truly special about Ta’ Cenc. After all, it is an island within an island, built on Gozo’s highest point and offering stunning views over the 1.5m sqm estate, the majestic cliffs and the picturesque islands of Malta and Comino. It is the only hotel in the region to be built on a 150 hectare Natura 2000 site, with undisturbed skylines that stretch as far as the eye can see. Situated on the outskirts of a sleepy village, Hotel Ta’ Cenc & Spa with 85 stone bungalows overlooking the sea. The hotel offers an array of services, amenities and facilities which guarantee this remains one of the island’s top hotels – as it has been for decades.
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